districts get state revnue and then can levy so many pennies of additional property tax, but “rich” districts were ordered to send some to a matching “poor” district (ours was Laredo), but it has since been changed to just a general fund, it spent 20 years in court en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_H...
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our district raided the rainy day fund a few times to absorb these increases; and due to a weird quirk of property tax law, we have to send $40 million of revenue to the state for redistribution to less urban districts (this in anti socialist Texas no less! the TX Supreme Court has upheld it!)
some child was wearing a perfume/cologne/spray that I haven’t smelled since 1997 and it really messed with me today
this has more to do with stuff going on locally, not *gestures at everything else*
I need to stop saying "well it can't get worse" out loud, because
a bucket with a price sticker of $19.99, inside the buckets are lots of quarters dimes and nickels
the snapping cubes that went in this tub were $19.99, there’s currently a stack of coins in here, is it more than $19.99?
well on the bright side the survival rate is a lot better than a Dickens novel
investigating otc anxiety treatments is funny, half of them make you less anxious because they just knock you out
is this what’s happening or are you reading Dickens
did he let you ride in the Lambo
so if the formula is pi*r^2 why do we write the answers X*pi, stop this formulaic pi supremacy
yes, if you ever visit Texas you will see people in cowboy hats just going about their business, at bars/clubs it’s even considered fancy dress
if Melloncollie and the Infinite Sadness was released today the top single would be called “2011”
every time I hear the song “Smooth” I wake up in the summer of 1999 and walk outside to get in my friend’s car so we can go see “Wild Wild West” opening weekend
formula reference, area of a square as s times s, so it reads A = s s
I actually didn’t do this on purpose
I always enjoy area problems where the shapes are dimensioned in kilometers. I guess we’re planning a city?
had me in the first half
It’s cool how the Atlantic 10 has 14 teams, the Big 12 has 16, and the Big 10 has 18 but the Pac 12 at one point had 2.
millennia
are you…there for me? 🥹
it has not, in fact, been my day, my week, my month, or even my year
2026 is a big fat 😑 thus far
because I have been forced to work in these highly hands-on 50 minute bursts, for so so so so long, I have lost of all concept of what "normal" job productivity looks like, seems glacial by comparison
I’m just here so I don’t get fined
“class you have until Weezer’s Green Album is over to finish today’s assignment”
S: hey mister you wanna see something
T: no
I took this hoity toity English class in college, 10 books/semester and some of them were just insane, but of course my friends and I jokingly quote the lofty philosophy to each other regularly 20 years later
90s albums are great for school because each one is about a class period long
I have yet to see these superb owls everyone is talking about today
